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It back over to steve to give you more details and talk a little bit about what department is doing and is planning to do to respond to some of our recommendations. So overall scores this year were incredibly consistent over last year. They did go up from 88. 3 on average last year to 88. 4 this year. So that is pretty consistent and generally pretty highscoring. In terms of look at longer term, going back to the beginning of the parks program, you can see that the overall trend park scores have improved and then this also just breaks down for you you can see kind of orderly how the park score...

Again they have been very stable. The changes since the last year are fairly small. And over the time you can see that the department is has really different focus to the area s where there is high use, the gardens, restrooms, athletic fields have improved. There are low use areas, wider in acreage and harder to maintain, but also, it reflects the park evaluation process itself. And something that were working on. The open space is only graded on a single score. And as a result, it can vary in its score greatly from evaluator to evaluator and from time to time this. Kind of oscillation is part...

Rating of 9 as the threshold for actually abating the tree meaning removing the tree. So in Golden Gate Park, and we did this citywide, in Golden Gate Park. There were 336 trees overall with a ranking of 9 or above and among those 126 were Monterey Pines and 78 were monterey cyprus and the rest blue gums. From there, hort science gave us the recommendation to remove a number of the trees. Its worth noting that Monterey Pines were the Largest Group and two reasons for this. First Monterey Pines in Golden Gate Park are what hort science refers to as largely overmature in development, which means...

With updates as they occur. Thank you. Colleagues, any further questions . Thank you very much, ms. Zamuda. And ms. Howard, i know you spoke earlier. We asked you about the kind of impact on everything on the budget outlook. Is there anything else you wanted to add at this point . The thing that i would is add, supervisor, it is early and given the significant, the significant structure issue with the department of public health, that will likely have a more effect on our overal deficit projection than this smaller good news. Overall because that issue is not a not only a current year issue. I...

That will keep us on a more steady footing in terms of how much money and it will prevent big cuts and layoffs. So, im available to answer any additional questions and we will definitely be with you on a weekly basis and provide you with updates as they occur. Thank you. Colleagues, any further questions . Thank you very much, ms. Zamuda. And ms. Howard, i know you spoke earlier. We asked you about the kind of impact on everything on the budget outlook. Is there anything else you wanted to add at this point . The thing that i would is add, supervisor, it is early and given the significant, the...